Director Kim Seong-soo of the Tongyeong Lacquer Art Museum is unique in the field of lacquer. This is because he is the’pioneer of Korean lacquer painting’ who created lacquer paintings that made use of the properties of lacquer by breaking away from the traditional craft of Najeon lacquerware.
He, who has been showing works centered on art museums, is attracting attention in that he meets visitors at a general gallery for the first time at the invitation of Insa Art Plaza Gallery.
Lacquer painting is a different dimension from painting on ordinary canvases.
(1) First, make a wooden board for lacquer painting and apply lacquer.
(2) After covering it with hemp, make a solid base with lacquer and paint it.
(3) After that, color is applied, and even after the molding process, lacquer is applied 10 times to polish.
A series of work processes is a difficult work.
It is a difficult task because of the aerodynamics, the work time that requires months, and the materials are expensive. Nevertheless, once the work is finished, the beautiful color and brilliance that resembles a jewel reaches a unique formative beauty that no other painting in the world can follow. In addition to this, the depth and space of lacquer and its elegant and luxurious visual image are an aesthetic world that has never been experienced in the existing painting genre.
“Lacquer painting is a new concept of formative technique that creates a pictorial image in an independent flat space while applying the traditional lacquer technique as it is. He said it was well equipped.
In this exhibition, pure abstract, especially geometric abstract works, will be shown along with the concept works. Although it is a geometric abstraction, the process of creating an image using a kind of object called najeon is very different from the properties of modern abstract painting. This is because the arrangement and arrangement of Najeon, which is elaborately unfolded so as not to tolerate even a gap, reveals a visual image and emotion that is clearly different from the existing abstract paintings. The character of Najeon, which radiates its own radiance, is highlighted as it is, leading the overall image to a gorgeous and luxurious atmosphere.
Basically, it is based on the Yin-Yang and the Five Elements, which is the basis of Eastern thought, and brings out unified beauty by properly contrasting light and dark places, red and blue, straight lines and circles, and the circulation phenomenon of the universe, nature, and human life and death. I emphasized that I am converting it to an image.
Meanwhile, the lacquered najeon works by Kim Seong-su are also currently in the British Museum.
